- Behind the Money Curtain: A Left Take on Taxes, Spending and Modern Monetary Theory
Resource Type: Article Published: 2018 Taxes do not fund government spending.That's a core insight of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) whose radical implications have not been understood very well by the left. Indeed, it's not well understood at all, and most people who have heard or read it somewhere breeze right past it, and fall back to the taxes-for-spending paradigm that is the sticky common wisdom of the left and right.
- Call to non-cooperation with IFHP cuts launched in Toronto
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 Health care workers and other service providers refuse to comply with restrictions to the refugee health program and call for action.
- Canada After Harper
His Ideology-fuelled Attack on Canadian Society and Values, and How We Can Resist and Create the Country We Want Resource Type: Book Published: 2015 Essays documenting the breadth and depth of the Harper government's attack on institutions, policies, and programs that embody values and principles shared by most Canadians: education, health care, women's rights, science and research, the economy, labour unions, water and natural resources, and Aboriginal affairs.
- Canada Should 'Get Tough' on Political Crimes, Say Watchdogs
Four needed crackdowns, starting with illegal surveillance and electoral crime. Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 A new round of Conservative Party advertisements return to a familiar tough-on-crime refrain.
- The Canadian Election and the Global Climate Crisis
Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 The environmental stands of all the main parties in this election amount to climate change denial.
- Class Warfare
The Assault on Canada's School Resource Type: Book Published: 1994 The authors show that the attack on schools has been mounted by representatives of big business who stand to make a fortune by privatizing education, aided by the religious right, who want to control what is taught -- and not taught -- in our schools.
- Critical Perspectives on the Constitution
Volume 2 Resource Type: Book Published: 1985 This collection includes essays on collective rights, resistance to patriation by First Nations chiefs, and Quebec education reform.
- Dismantling Democracy
Stifling Debate and Dissent in Canada Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 An extensive dossier of the Harper government's attacks on democracy, debate, and dissent.
- Federal government continues to receive failing grade on issue of free expression
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 For the third straight year, the federal government received failing grades from Canadian Journalists for Free Expression in a report card on freedom of expression in Canada.
- Federalism and the French Canadians
Resource Type: Book Published: 1968 An essay that discusses nationalism and the Quebec seperatist movement.
- GovernmentSources.ca
Resource Type: Website A portal with information about government, Canadian and international, with articles, documents, books, websites, and experts and spokespersons. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.
- Harper, Serial Abuser of Power: The Evidence Compiled
The Tyee's full, updated list of 70 Harper government assaults on democracy and the law. Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 Stephen Harper and his Conservatives have racked up dozens of serious abuses of power since forming government in 2006. From scams to smears, monkey-wrenching opponents to intimidating public servants like an Orwellian gorilla, some offences are criminal, others just offend human decency. Here are 70 instances of abuse of power by the Stephen Harper government.
- Iroquois Caucus says budget falls short in meeting necessary needs
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 The federal budget represents a missed opportunity by the Government of Canada to strengthen its relationship withFirst Nations, according to the Iroquois Caucus which represents seven Iroquois communities.
- 'It's a New Day': Why Environmentalists Need to Change Their Strategy Under Trudeau Government
Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 Now that Justin Trudeau and the Liberals have taken the helm, advocates have high hopes for a course correction on the environment and energy files. But after nearly a decade of working under hostile conditions, environmentalists need to make a course correction of their own if they want to effectively influence public policy, experts say.
- Last Stand of the Lubicon Cree
Resource Type: Book Published: 1991
- Liberal Dreams and Nature's Limits
Great Cities of North America Since 1600 Resource Type: Book Published: 1996 An exploration of city life through time, focusing on the life [economically, socially, politically, etc.] of five large North American cities at various times in the past - Philadelphia during the time of Benjamin Franklin (1760), New York in the mid nineteenth-century (1860), Chicago at the beginning of the Progressivist Civic Movements (1910), Los Angeles during the immediate Post-war boom (1950) and Toronto at the beginning of its own ascendancy in the 1970's. (1975).
- Losing Toronto: How Olivia Chow and the left may be giving away an election
Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 As we head into the Labour Day weekend that may be accurately deemed to be the start of the homestretch of Toronto's very long mayoral and council election season, the news is not good for leftists or progressives in the city.
- Lung Association working to make lung health federal election priority
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2008 This week The Lung Association will launch a national campaign to empower Canadians to advocate for action on lung health. Please visit www.lung.ca on Thursday for more details and make your voice heard.
- Migrant rights activists denounce Canada's Federal Government for stripping away Employment Insurance benefit for migrant workers
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 Migrant worker advocates are angered and shocked to learn that the Federal Government is once again attacking one of Canada's most vulnerable populations.
- On the Take
Crime, Corruption and Greed in the Mulroney Years Resource Type: Book Published: 1994
- Our Generation
Volume 20 Number 1 Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1988
- Retreat From Governance
Canada and the Continental-International Challenge Resource Type: Book Published: 1989
- Seven Public Sector Myths
Resource Type: Article Published: 1991 Fact and fiction about the public sector.
- Transforming Ourselves Transforming the World
An Open Conspiracy for Social Change Resource Type: Book Published: 1999 Addresses society's pessimism about social change and provides a theoretical means and practice to overcome this fatalism.
- What is Stephen Harper doing to Canada? How can we stop him?
Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 The Harper regime has had a toxic effect on Canada. The wealthy are better off, but most Canadians are worse off, and rights and freedoms, democracy, access to information, and science have suffered. How can we stop him? Here is a factsheet which can be downloaded, printed, and distributed as a two-sided flyer.
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